Loading-machine.



B. P. HANSON & N. l. NELSON.

LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 19. 1915. RENEWED NOV. 11.1916.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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LOADING MACHINE,

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LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 00119, i915. RENEWED NOV. 11.1916.

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LOADING-MACHINE.

Application filed October 19, 1915 Serial No. 56,696. Renewed November 11 1916.

Y '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENNIE P. I-IANsoN and Nuts I. NELSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Bancroft, in the county of Kossuth and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loading-Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to loading machines and more particularly to a machine for handling and loading manure.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a device whereby the manure can be easily and quickly gathered from the barnyard or other place and effectively placed in a pile or in a pen, or loaded into a wagon, manure spreader, or other transporting vehicle.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device whereby the gathering means can be locked in raised position in a con venient and certain manner.

Another object of this invention is to provide a ready attachable and detachable connection between the gathering means and the flexible lifting means. therefor.

Another object of this invention is to pro vide the device with means whereby the same may be readily moved from place to place.

Another object of this invention is to provide a resilient support for the lifting means whereby to viate sudden jerks which might be occasioned by the gathering means encountering obstructions.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device so constructed that the same may be used in conjunction with a trans porting vehicle for loading the latter, or that certain parts of the device may be de tached from the remainder and mounted upon the body of the vehicle when desired.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will be hereinafter more clearly set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 12, 1917.

Serial No. 130,922.

S imilar characters of reference refer to simllar parts throughout the specification and drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device complete for operation,

Fig. 2 is a side View of the gathering means and the elevating means therefor.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the elevating means.

Fig. 4; is a further detail view showing the lifting means locked in elevated position in the support therefor.

Fig. 5 is an end view showing the manner of mounting the tackle block upon the supporting frame therefor.

Fig. 6 is an end view of the lifting pulley and block.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view showing the manner of mounting certain parts of the device upon a wagon or other transporting vehic e,

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a modified form of the gathering means.

Fig. 9 is a side view of another modified form of the gathering means.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, the base frame of the device may be constructed of any suitable material, but is preferably formed of angle iron or steel where feasible. The frame consists of the sills A and B, and upon the sills, adjacent their forward ends, is secured the platform C, preferably formed of woodenboards. Secured upon the sills A and B, rearwardly of the platform C, is the cross bar D, braced to the sills A and B by the rods E. The ends of the cross bar D project outwardly beyond the sills Aand B, and upon these ends are secured the brackets F, formed with the pivot pins or trunnions G, provided with the cotter pins H, though block to the M are provided with the upturned forks N, in which are pivotally mounted the trans porting wheels 0.

Pivotally mounted upon the trunnions G of the cross bar D of the base frame, is a suitable frame 2, in this instance preferably 2 formed of piping, provided at its lower ends with the pivot ears 3 for embracing the trunnions G. Suitable springs 4 and 5 are provided and have one of their ends secured to the upper ends of the standards I and J, and their other ends secured to the side portions 6 and 7 of the frame 2 to resiliently retain said frame in elevated position upon the base frame as shown.

At the center of the top portion of the frame 2 is fastened a tackle block or housing, comprising the side members 9 and 10 having the outstanding flanges 11 and 12 respectively to suitably fasten the tackle or other fastening means. An upper pulley 14 is mounted between the plates 9 and 10 by means of a suitable shaft 15, and a lower pulley 16 is likewise mounted between the plates 9 and 10 by means of the shaft 17, the

last mentioned pulley being slightly in front as well as below the first mentioned pulley 14. One end of a suitable cable 18 is secured around the pulley 14, and is then passed around the lifting pulley 19, to be hereinafter described in detail, and over the pulley 16, thence over the fore part of the device to be attached to a suitable source of power, preferably that of a horse. The last mentioned part of the cable 18 may be passed over and beyond the fore part of the wagon that is being loaded, the wagon beingbacked upon the platform C, so that the hind wheels of the wagon rest upon the platform C and thus maintain the stability of the device during the loading operation. The platform C 1S primarily designed for "this purpose,

though the platform maybe otherwise weighted, or the base frame otherwise secured, to prevent casual displacement of the device if desired. I

The lifting pulley 19 is mounted between two plates 22, which are suitably fastened together by means of the pulley shaft 23 and the pins 24 and 25. The ends of the pin 25 extend beyond the outer sides of the plates 22 and are adapted to be seated in the elongated apertures 26 formedwithin the plates 9 and 10 of the tackle block, previously mentioned, for efliciently locking the lifting device in elevated position within the pulley block, as plainly shown in Fig. 4. l

A suitable gathering fork or rake is provided, the preferred form being shown in Fig. 2, and consists of a plurality of tooth bars 27, suitably fastened to a cross beam 28 by means of the U-bolts 29 which are looked around the tooth bars 27 and through frame 2 by means of bolts 13' the cross beam 28 by means of suitable nuts 80 or other suitable form of fastening means, certain of said means likewise supporting the ends 31 of the handles 32. The upper end portions of said tooth bars are suitably supported in a second cross beam 33 and locked thereagainst by the U-bolts 34 of the form previously described, said U-bolts being locked by the nuts 35 after the brace bars 36 are mounted over the ends of certain of said U-bolts 84, the opposite ends of said brace bars 36 being fastened as at 37 to the handles 32 to brace the same. A third cross beam 38 is mounted between the cross beams 28 and 33 adjacent the bend of the tooth bars 27 and fastened by means of the U-bolts 39 in a manner as previously described.

The center tooth ,bar is elongated as at 40 and looped as at 41 to provide a. track arrangement of an even contour throughout, in which travels a connection 42, said connection having mounted in'one end thereof, by means of a suitable shaft 43, a pulley 44 adapted to travel along the under side of the loop 41. The upper end of the connection 42 is forked asat 45 and 46, between which forks is pivotally mounted a hook 47,

said hook being mounted by means of the or bolt 48, and is adapted tobe pivot pin hooked over the pin 24 previously removably described. 7

In Fig. 7 is shown the manner of mounting a portion of the loading device, shown in Fig. 1, upon a wagon, manure spreader, or other transporting vehicle when desired. This is-accomplished by detaching the ears 3 of the frame '2 from the trunnions Gr of the base frame, and also the springs 4 and 5 from the standards I and J, and securing the ears 8 upon the trunnions of the brackets 3 secured upon the outer sides of the body 1 of the vehicle, and the springs 4 and 5 to the ,apertured brackets 4 and 5 secured upon the top edge of the body of the vehicle. That portion of the cable 18, which passes over and beyond the forward end of the vehicle, may be passed througa idle pulleys arranged upon the front end of the vehicle, as shown at 20 and 21 if desired.

In the modified form of the fork or rake shown in Fig. 8, the two cross beams 49 and 50 are used instead of the three beams as shown in Fig. 2, the handles .32 being fastened to the cross beam 49' and the brace rods 36 to the cross beam 50 in a manner described in the preferred form of the invention. The tooth bars of this construction are curved as at 51 in a semi-circular form rather than having a straight portion 52, as illustrated in Fig. 2 in the preferred form of the fork or rake.

The further modified form of the fork or rake shown in Fig. 9 is'essentially similar to that shown in Fig. 8, excepting the loop fl is provided with the upset portion 53 to provide a recess into which the pulley 4:4: may drop when the fork is drawn b eneath the tackle block of the frame 2, to efficiently balance the fork with its load while the same is being raised from the ground and carried over the load.

In operation, the fork or rake is drawn rearwardly at any desired angle, as far as is necessary with the pulley 4A of the connection at the forward end of the loop 41, whereupon the horse or the power at the forward end of the cable is started up, and the rake is gradually drawn toward the supporting frame 2 and its tackle block, gathering the manure as it-travels in this direction. This operation will. continue until the fork or rake is drawn beneath the supporting frame 2 and the tackle block, at which point the cable begins to draw the fork and its load upwardly, and at this instance the pulley 44: will travel along the under side of the loop ll of the fork toward the center of the loop, in the structures shown in Figs. 2 and 7 or drop into the recess 53 of the structure shown in Fig. 8, whereby the rake and its load will be evenly balanced as it travels upwardly. Prior to the fork reaching its uppermost position, the projecting ends of the pin 25 will engage the sloping edges of the plates 9 and 10 of the tackle block and be directed and seated into the slots 26 of the plates 9 and 10, whereupon the fork and its connections will be locked in elevated position. The continued drawing of the cable will now cause the frame 2 and the fork and its load to be swung forwardly, the frame 2 assuming the same angular position in its forward position as it initially assumed in its rearward position. The forward position of the frame 2 now places the loaded fork over the pile, pen, or the vehicle to be loaded, whereupon by a slight tilting of the fork its load will be discharged with little or no exertion upon the operator. After the load has been dumped from the fork, the cable is then slackened and the fork and the frame 2 is drawn rearwardly until the frame 2 assumes its rearmost position, whereupon a slight additional pull upon the fork will cause the locking ends of the pin 25 to become dislodged from the apertures 26 of the tackle block and the fork thereby lowered to the ground, whereupon the fork is again drawn rearwardly and the operation repeated as before described.

While the operation of the device has been described as a machinefor loading manure, it is to be understood that this device is equally adaptable for loading sand, gravel, dirt and the like, the only changes being necessary for this latter use would be in the teeth of the fork, and in this latter instance it would only be necessary to cover the lower portions of the teeth with a covering of sheet iron or other thin metal.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is v 1. A leading device, comprising a base member, a supporting frame pivotally mounted upon said base member, a housing rigidly mounted upon said frame and hav-, ing a plurality of pulleys therein, a cable riding over said pulleys and carrying a lifting device, a rake having a looped portion thereon, means riding in said looped portion and connected to said lifting device, and means carried by said lifting device adapted to lock in said housing when said lifting device is in elevated position.

2. A loading device, comprising a rake,

consisting of a number of tooth bars, a plurality of cross beams assembling said tooth bars, handles attached to one of said cross beams, bracing members connected at one end to another of said cross beams, and at their opposite ends to said handles to brace the same, looped means upon said brake, connecting means riding in said looped means, and a lifting device connected to said connecting means to lift said rake. 3. A loading device, comprising a pivoted support having a rigidly mounted housing thereon containing pulleys, said housing having apertures therethrough, a cable riding over said pulleys and carrying a lifting device, said lifting device having an extended pin adapted to be seated in said apertures to lock said lifting device in elevated position, a rake having a looped portion, and a flexibly mounted connecting means riding in said looped portion removably connected to said lifting device to raise said rake upon the operation of said lifting device.

4. A loading device, comprising supporting means, lifting means, locking means carried by said lifting means for locking said lifting means to said support when in elevated position, a rake having an elongated looped portion, and flexible means riding in said looped portion removably hooked to said lifting means adapted to raise said rake upon the operation of said lifting means.

5. A loading device, comprising a base member provided with transporting wheels,

a supporting frame upon said base member, means for pivotally mounting said supporting frame upon said base member, means for resiliently supporting said supporting frame upon said base member, a housing upon said supporting frame provided with apertures, pulleys within said housing, a cable for traveling over one of said pulleys, a

and means carried by said lifting device adapted to lock in the apertures of said housing when said lifting device is in elevated positlon.

In testimony whereof We have signed our 11311168130 this specification in the presence of two subscrlbing Witnesses.

BENNIE P. HANSON. NELS I. NELSON.

Witnesses:

E. V. ZIGRANG, W. L. AYRES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

